tar under Interactive unix

[Matthew Farwell]

In article <1990Oct11.121032.16745 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>In article <1990Oct10.211911.9236 at robobar.co.uk> ronald at robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes:
>>cpcahil at virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>>> The one included with System V R3.2 and later is the result of the Xenix
>>> tar being merged back into the AT&T tar.
>>Does the generic 3.2 tar support the 'q' option that SCO does (though
>>*un*documented) which says something like "stop after the first matching
>>file" ?
>A simple test of "tar -qvf -" before posting the question would have
>answered your question:
>
>	tar: q: unknown option
>	Usage:.....

This is assuming, of course, that you had access to a system which ran
a generic SVR3.2...... Which I don't believe ronald does....

Dylan.
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